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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PsyzhranV2" data-source="post: 8121722" data-attributes="member: 7015332">"Original characters". Also called "fan characters" if they're made for fanworks of an existing IP. It's largely a late Millennial/early Gen Z fanfiction thing AFAIK. Can be targets of mockery if they're hypercompetent, overly edgy, or both.The observation here is that the character creation rules of 5e are well-suited to making characters in this vein by giving options well-defined enough to provide guidance but still open-ended enough for creative interpretation. Also, I'd hazard a guess that a lot of 5e's target market comes from that 2000s/early 2010s fanfic culture. Hence players being as invested in their player characters as a fanfic writer would be in their OC. /r/dnd is filled with art of people's OCs/PCs.[MEDIA=twitter]1292110499337961472[/MEDIA]</blockquote>